These wasps are generally docile unless you bother them
Mama wasps fill each tube with live paralyzed spiders
To provide a warm meal for their larvae, who gobble them.
(Wasps can be pretty mean to spiders. Maybe I should have saved this one for Halloween!)
Location: My house, FellsmereSources: https://www.insectidentification.org/insect-description.php?identification=Pipe-Organ-Mud-Dauber-Wasp
Photo and text © 2021 Dee Fairbanks Simpson
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